Hello and welcome to the In The Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers part of the

Pitcherless Podcast Network.

My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by pitcherless's bullpen expert, Rick Graham.

Rick, how's it going?

We are heading into July.

Do you have any plans next week for the fourth of july i mean oh we actually

should figure out when we're going to record that comes on a thursday it does yeah um i don't have any plans

i do have i have that thursday and friday off so i have a nice little four-day weekend of absolutely

no plans which is kind of kind of nice it's been you know between work and

everything it's been a very busy and hectic time recently so it'd be nice to have just a relaxing

four days so yeah whenever you want whenever you want to record next week i am good for any day

okay i think i'm going to a party on wednesday and then I have no idea what I'm doing on Thursday.

There's actually a very good chance that I'm not doing anything.

And my work didn't give us Friday off, which I think is stupid.

And I think they're just going to wait until tomorrow or they'll probably wait until next week to tell us we have a furlough day or something.

So they don't have to pay us.

And it'll be too late for anybody to schedule a vacation.

Yeah.

Exactly.

So yeah, that'll be terrible.

But I'm sure everybody's not going to be working on Friday anyway.

So I should also have a four-day weekend, but I won't be getting paid the same way you are.

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